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Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

So you want to boost the ‘quality of form’ in your story? You want to progress towards a three-dimensional, more widely appealing and...

Conventional advice on how to write better fiction dwells on those well-worn items, character and plot. We’re supposed to have ‘fully...

There is probably more than one theme, then, in any piece of any length written by a writer who more or less knows the basics of writing....

Let’s say that you are trying to isolate the themes that your fiction deals with. Two things that might help: 1. It might not be possible...

Such a lot of the emphasis about ‘succeeding’ as a writer these days is on the marketing aspect. Many writers, probably the majority,...

Still struggling with the idea of ‘theme’? It’s not the way most authors write — hardly anyone starts off with a rational concept and...

Let’s say you’ve written a story, or perhaps a whole range of stories, and never considered this thing called ‘theme’ before. Is all...

Based on one or two responses I’ve had to the earlier articles in this sequence, some clarification may be required. That’s because many...